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Pro-Choice Demonstration Outside Bigots’ Church Service For some months, a group called Abort 67 has been picketting Wiston’s Clinic on the border of Brighton and Hove. Wiston’s carry out early termination of pregnancy for women who choose not to have a child as well as vasectomies for men. Abort67 is a group which advocates the…

My Memories of a Little Girl Sarah Jane Chahine I first met Sarah when she was about 5. She, her mother Ilham and her sister came to Brighton Unemployed Centre around 2006 and shortly after Ilham became a volunteer. Ilham had come to this country from Lebanon although Sarah was born here. Ilham was Lebanese…

Video: Hanaa Shalabi, a Palestinian woman on Hunger Strike “in Mortal Danger”http://youtu.be/Nu2twazlKo8 Release Hanaa Shalabi Hanaa Shalabi was released in the prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit. Israel now seeks to retrospectively break the agreement, just as it breaks all agreements it reaches, and has detained her again. Under Administrative Detention, i.e. imprisonment without trial. She…

Beitar fans in Jerusalem, notorious for their anti-Arab racism, beat up Arab cleaners in a shopping mall to ‘celebrate’ their home side’s victory. What is though unbelievable, and is in itself a testimony to the deep racism within all sectors of Israeli society, especially the state, no one was arrested. The Police excuse was that…

EDL Cowers Behind Police Linesas Saturday Crowd Turns on Them Using the threats of the English Defence League, the ‘Quakers’ quaked and cancelled the room we had hired at the Friends Meeting Centre to launch my book on Fighting Fascism in Brighton and on the South Coast. Fortunately Labour History Workshop hired the Brighthelm Church…

Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon Over a decade ago, Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish issued a statement ‘Serious Concerns About Israel Shamir’ concerning the virulent anti-semitism of Shamir. Like Atzmon, Shamir too traded on his Israeli connections, yet his language about Jews as ‘a…

From the Slave Trade to Apartheid South Africa to Zionism in Israel – Barclays is there to make a fast buck On Saturday Brighton PSC and the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign held its 2nd picket of Barclays Bank urging people to tear up their credit cards and withdraw their accounts. Two weeks ago we held…

Although anti-Semites like the Wandering Fool, aka Gilad Atzmon, believe Israel is a Jewish plot, in fact the most supportive and dedicated lobby in support of Israel is the 30m+ Christians United for Israel group of Pastor John Hagee, a supporter of Hitler no less!Indeed modern political Zionism owes its origins not to Jewish support…

Israel currently holds approximately 300 Palestinians without charge or trial — a practice known as administrative detention. The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Last week I blogged that Israel had issued its third consecutive order to detain Qatamesh without…